If your garbage disposal is leaking around the mounting assembly, try tightening the screws on the sink-mounting ring. Your drain issue should now be a thing of the past. Once you’ve scraped out what you can, just reattach and tighten snugly into place. You are likely to get grease and other nasty things that have accumulated in your pipes over time.Īn old wire coat hanger can easily dislodge most clogs. Place a bucket under it first to catch water and debris.

This is normally easy to do by unscrewing the pipe nut with a pipe wrench or channel lock wrench. If it’s still draining slowly, disconnect the J bend (also called a P-trap or S-trap, it is the U-shaped pipe under your sink) and check for a clog. Make sure the water is running full blast when using the disposal. Turn the circuit off and replace the switch or call a service company. If you have power coming into, but not leaving, the switch, then your switch is the culprit. If it’s okay, then check the power at the switch. Check the power to the circuit that feeds the disposal. It could be an obstruction (if so, use the above instructions) or a power issue. But there are other problems that impact the performance of your disposal.

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